Meet Alese and Morton Pechter - Authors of Skyward Bound

Alese and Morton Pechter, authors of the just-released children's book, Skyward Bound,are world-renowned photojournalists and authors. You may know them from their membership in the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame and as recipients of the Reaching Out Award (DEMA Hall of Fame), among other prestigious recognitions from the scuba diving industry.

In their new children's book, Alese and Morton raise our eyes to the skies. Pulling from more than a decade of flying and photographing hot-air ballooning, their work has appeared in periodicals and texts internationally.

Skyward Bound,authoredby Alese and Morton Pechter, our well-known friends from the scuba diving industry, captures the imagination of the young child yearning to fly.

Read along and enjoy magnificent photos of breathtaking, colorful balloons as they explore from the clouds. Learn how a balloon is assembled, inflated, rises to the sky, and becomes a rainbow of colors overhead.

In this book, parents and children will feel the excitement and peacefulness of a hot-air balloon adventure!

In this new children's book, Best Publishing Company invites our underwater explorers to travel from the depths of the sea to the heights of the heavens.

In the words of Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, "In the decades that I have known Alese and Mort, I have deeply admired their shared passion for the beauty of life above and below, their joy of gliding weightless in the sea and in the sky above, and of using their wondrous skills as photographers and explorers to inspire legions of earthlings to go see for themselves the glorious nature of Earth’s oceans of water and air. This book is a tribute to their passion for life, their love for each other, and their deep sense of caring for all of the natural world and especially and for the generations of young explorers to come."